Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life is a biography devoted to the life and achievements of the American Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The biography covers the key points of Ginsburg’s career, including her struggle in being taken seriously as a lawyer, being a Jewish American woman. Moreover, the book strives to break down the US constitution and evaluate the impact of Ginsburg’s contribution in the legal sector to the present day.
The book explores the hardship Ginsburg faced in her early life. Despite being born to an affluent family in New York’s Upper East Side, Ginsburg was met with discrimination and stigma due to her Jewish background. However, Ginsburg knew she had to take a powerful stance against gender and racial and so she became involved with the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She then went on to become involved in prominent gender discrimination cases such as, Moritz v. Commissioner (1972) , and United States v. Virginia (1996).
The biography also notes Ginsburg’s contributions to the world today. Ginsburg’s role in enabling equal and fair opportunities for women by forcing a change in the constitution at the time meant that there were laws in in place for housing, insurance, military service, abortion rights for women. In that sense, Ginsburg has been a vital component in ensuring progress in equal rights to the present today.
